Not every car is a Rolls-Royce, or Duesenberg, or 1957 Chevrolet, or Hemi ‘Cuda…most are pedestrian tools that have a limited life, and once that life is used up, they generally hit the scrapyard, rot, and are shredded or crushed to be recycled into a can or something else. While there are a lot of older cars that are running well and maintained lovingly, sometimes even that isn’t enough. In the case of this Jeep XJ Cherokee, it had many things going against it: it had body rot like none other, electrical issues, and most damning, had a rear door ripped off, which caused the Jeep to fail the UK’s MOT vehicle test. Those factors combined signed the death warrant for the XJ, but since it had faithfully served it’s owners, who had used the Jeep to maintain motocross tracks, they wanted it to have one last blowout before it was sent on it’s way. And since they had the perfect playground in which to let the Jeep have one more bout of fun before it was put down, why not test the XJ’s limits? You might cringe at the idea of a car being killed, but the video description has the answer: “I see a lot of angry posts a long the lines of “why would they wreck a perfectly good Jeep !! I would have fixed it, retards !!!”….. The thing was “F****D !!!!!!”, it was so rotten underneath you could have pedalled along with your feet. Also keep in mind this is the UK, the value of a second hand Jeep is as little as $300.”

There’s two mentalities on this: you can either leave a beautiful corpse when you go or you can leave everyone at your wake wondering just what all you did in life that made you look the way you do now. We think they made the right decision in giving this Cherokee a warrior’s death.